24 p. : ill. ; 17 cm. (12mo)

Cover title

Anonymous; a translation of "La bergère des Alpes," one of the "Contes moraux" of Marmontel

"Published by request."

Osborne Coll. (p. 481) dates James Kendrew's years of activity 1803-1841; ESTC gives date as [1795?]

Cover included in pagination

First sentence: "In that part of the Alps, amidst the high mountains of Savoy, very near the road that leads from Briancon to Modena, is a lonely valley ..."

Includes two woodcuts: title vignette (depicting a woman and a man holding hands, seated on a bench against a wall, a tree overhead) and tailpiece at end (2 small figures holding hands, a house in the left background)

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